Factors Associated With Latent Tuberculosis Infection Treatment Failure Among Patients With Commercial Health Insurance-United States, 2005-2016.

J Public Health Manag Pract

Office of the Associate Director for Science, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP) (Ms Chang and Drs Iqbal and Truman); Division of Health Informatics and Surveillance, Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services (Dr Isenhour); and Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, NCHHSTP (Drs Langer and Mazurek), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.

Published: October 2021

Context: Approximately 80% of US tuberculosis (TB) cases verified during 2015-2016 were attributed to untreated latent TB infection (LTBI). Identifying factors associated with LTBI treatment failure might improve treatment effectiveness.

Objective: To identify patients with indicators of isoniazid (INH) LTBI treatment initiation, completion, and failure.

Methods: We searched inpatient and outpatient claims for International Classification of Diseases (Ninth and Tenth Revisions), National Drug, and Current Procedural Terminology codes. We defined treatment completion as 180 days or more of INH therapy during a 9-month period. We defined LTBI treatment failure as an active TB disease diagnosis more than 1 year after starting LTBI treatment among completers and used exact logistic regression to model possible differences between groups. Among treatment completers, we matched 1 patient who failed treatment with 2 control subjects and fit regression models with covariates documented on medical claims paid 6 months or less before INH treatment initiation.

Participants: Commercially insured US patients in a large commercial database with insurance claims paid during 2005-2016.

Main Outcome Measures: (1) Trends in treatment completion; (2) odds ratios (ORs) for factors associated with treatment completion and treatment failure.

Results: Of 21 510 persons who began LTBI therapy during 2005-2016, 10 725 (49.9%) completed therapy. Treatment noncompletion is associated with those younger than 45 years, living in the Northeast or South Census regions, and women. Among persons who completed treatment, 30 (0.3%) progressed to TB disease. Diagnoses of rheumatoid arthritis during the 6 months before treatment initiation and being aged 65 years or older (reference: ages 0-24 years) were significantly associated with INH LTBI treatment failure (adjusted exact OR = 5.1; 95% CI, 1.2-28.2; and adjusted exact OR = 5.1; 95% CI, 1.2-25.3, respectively).

Conclusion: Approximately 50% of persons completed INH LTBI therapy, and of those, treatment failure was associated with rheumatoid arthritis and persons 65 years or older among a cohort of US LTBI patients with commercial health insurance.

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